The Whittlesea Puzzles for Beginners geoart is designed for cachers who are new to puzzle solving. In this series, we explore a number of common puzzle solving techniques and highlight some online resources. These beginner puzzles will help get you started in tackling those mysteries on your geomap, and hopefully boost your confidence to tackle more.
Many of the online puzzle solving tools can be found on the following page: Puzzle Resources.
Don't forget to collect the clues inside the cache for the bonus puzzle - GC9Z4DN - Whittlesea Puzzles for Beginners - Bonus Cache.
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. To obtain the coordinates, solve the puzzle below.
Puzzle #02: OCR – Image to Text Converter
OCR stands for "Optical Character Recognition". It is a technology that recognizes text within a digital image. It is commonly used to recognize text in scanned documents and images. OCR software can be used to convert a physical paper document, or an image into an accessible electronic version with text.
We have all looked at puzzles where the text information is within an image. There are free online OCR Image to Text converters, however, depending on the image, they may not always be accurate.
The Puzzle
Try uploading the image to one of the OCR Image to Text Converters.
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Now that you have the resulting text, you can copy and paste it as needed to try and solve the puzzle.
Multi solvers are another tool that can assist in deciphering a puzzle. They will try to match the puzzle text against a number of different ciphers to find the correct one. Try copying the resulting text into this MultiSolver to see if any of the output makes sense.
We have chosen locations for caches where it is safe to pull off the road within a short distance of GZ. Under NO circumstance should driveways and gates be blocked or used for parking. With nearby property owners in mind, these geocaches have been placed out of view and away from private residences, so as not to cause alarm. Please be mindful of the local community, and have a friendly chat with them if they stop by.
